[ 'mi:dɪən ]
■ adjective
1》 technical, chiefly Anatomy situated in the middle, especially of the body.
2》 denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the mid point of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities.
↘denoting the middle term (or mean of the middle two terms) of a series arranged in order of magnitude.
■ noun
1》 a ~ value.
2》 (also ~ strip ) North American term for central reservation .
3》 Geometry a straight line drawn from any vertex of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side.
Derivatives
~ly adverb
Origin
ME: from med. L. ~us , from medius 'mid'.